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TRe Dourant-flmerican. 1.50 I’KK ANNI M—IN AHVAVCF. —— - ——.—- bite* or aovektixing. sfaca I lmo. I 3 m.jn | nine I 1 .year. (In* Inch. |!M |1 00 5 7 Mr* in no Two Inchon. 3SO 7 50] 10 00) is (mi Three Inchon. | S 00! 10 00 lj mi! 70 oo Footaam. ! 6no 12 sol is ooi 2s 00 Fourth column. I 7 ofl IS ooi Si 00) 40 ini Half column. t 11 00 20 00) 40 00 i DO 00 One column, 15 oo) as ooj soon) 100 to Local notice* ten cent* per line for Drat lnm i tlon. For a lonur time, low nr rate* The Chicago Sun thinks that the country is run*flly getting ready for a heavier railroad mileage,and that a boom n building will no doubt start next year. There has set in an era of house restor ation in Virginia. Old Southern man sions reduced to a mass of ruins are propped up, repainted and thoroughly restored and surrounded by elaborate pleasure grounds. In connection with the death ef Gen ral Frefhent, it fc interesting to relall that only one man beside* him (General Logan) rose from civil life tfi the com mand of an array, without haying ob tained a West Point education. The French project of running a rail road one thousand miles into the interior of Africa is, in the opinion of the At lanta Can.ititu.lpn, as big a thing as their Panama Canal enterprise, bat it is mors feasible. If anything will civilize the dark continent, and draw white immi grants, it goes without saying it is a railroad. The enterprise should bo en eouraged. The Chicago Herald has noticed that “as noon as given the right to vote women cease to cars for it. In a recant school sice lion in Sanborn County, South Da kota, only 100 women voted out of 1200 female voters. Yet it was in Sanborn County that the woman’s suffrage move ment of the State originated and where the most enthusiasm for it was manifested. In other parts of the State the percentage of women voters was even less, and ex perience seems to show that women want to vote only so long as they arc told that they can’t.” One of tho first things which strikes an Eastern man who goes out on the Pacific slopo as quocr, avers the Chicago Herald, is the use of tho word “rustler." The word has exactly tho same signifi cation there as the word “hustler” does here, and is invariably used by the Cali fornian* in place of the latter word. No one has yet explained the reason of the change in the initial letter. Aunthei expression peculiar to California is, “He's a bird,” corresponding to the Eastern expression, “He’s a daisy,” and implying that the gentleman referred to has great, faculties or powers in Bonn one particular. The phonograph figured at a wedding for the first time at tho marriage of Miss Tennant and Mr. Stanley. Throe of them were placed in Westminster Abbey during the service. One was placed in the tower, to record the full sound of the wedding bells. The second phono graph was placed by tho organ, to note the music and the wedding march. The third was placed in the choir, to give tho hymn as sung by the voices. These records have been presented by Colonel Gourand to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley, so that at any time hereafter tho wedding bells, the organ and the voices will sound as on the 12th of July, 1890. Edward Marston, tho Loudon pub lisher, tells, in Scribner's, this story of Stanley while at work on his great book : “Sadi, the black boy who traveled with him throughout his long and perilous expedition, is a youth of some resources. Until this terrible book had got into his master’s brain he had been accustomed to free access to him at all hours; but now things are different; every time he approaches the den the least thing he ex pected was that the ink-stand would be thrown at his head. He no longer ven tured therein. One day he originated a new way of saving ltis head; he had a telegram to deliver, so he ingeniously fixed it on the end of a long bamboo, and getting the door just ajar, he poked it into the room and bolted.” The Spaniard, at least the Catalan,has the making in him of one of the best workmen in Europe. In natural quick ness, dexterity and tact, he is by all odds the superior of the English laborer. He is temperate and frugal to a proverb. You do not see in the Spanish manufacturing or mining districts the squalid wretched - nes* that still haunted a few years back even loom. Drunkenness, its chief element, does not exist at all as a popular habit in Spain, not even in Andalusia, where the people are most prone to what they call excess. Ia the iron works the jaunty jackets and sombrero calanes look odd among the machines and furnaces. Yet the foreign foremen testify that the wearers of the romantic garb arc both willing to laboi and apt to learn. -The high price of fuel tells against the work. ME ALLIANCE CJKYKNTION HAS MET, DELIBERATED AND ADJOURNED. IMPORTANT OATHERINO OF RFPRFJTRNTA TIVE ALLIAKCEIILN AMI WIIAT THEY DIO. The third annual convention of the that® Alliance of Georgia wna called to order Tuesday morning in the hall of representatives of the new capitol by Pres dent L. F. Livingston. Not less ihari 175 delegates were present-, repre -< tiling nearly tvety county in the state. Kviry county is entitled to onrjj delegate, sod every county having more.fhan 3,000 ajlwncenvn is entitled to two delegates. <bi call of the roll neatly all the delegate* responded. By motion, the rending of the minutes was dispensed with. The ■ xecutivc or miditing committee had finished examining the accounts of all Ihe Alliance officers and had found them in good fix. 'I he committee on creden tial* then made their report. Next eatne 'h'- annual address pf President Liviog lUm, which was thi special feature of tl.i morning session.!*- lie gnve an able inti rapidrevi w of the Alliance orgau- : 7. ition since its inception, and showed hat every member ought to be proud if the order. He was followed by Pres ident polk in an able and pointed address. Ile spoke tor about two hours, dwelling upon the growth and condition of the • utional older. He spoke eloquently of the outlook, oiitUniug the purposes of l:C Alliance. 110 celled for c ontinued harmony and a sacrifice (if *ll personal inbitron" to fhe'aift'afiee'tnent of the Or der. The business of the night session was the election of officers for the ensuing year. It was held with the following result: L. F. Livingston, president; It. \V Everett, vice president; R.L. Burks, secretary; AV. A. B oughton, treasurer; Itev. .Mr. Davie, chaplain; .1. W. Beck, state lecturer;, AV . B. Copeland, *cr gennt at arms; I>. Wjltuiney, doorkeep er; F. 11. Waddell, assistant doorkeeper. It is noticeable that the two hignest 1 llicets of the Alliance are men that have been nominated for congri ss. It is worthy of note that in every instance the old officers were re elected—a wholesale awl emphatic endorsement of the ad ministration of tho past year. It will be noticed, aga p, that uo two officers come from the same eotinty. President Liv ingston hails from Newton, Vice-Presi dent Everett from Polk, Secretary Burks from Fulton, 'Jrrasnrer Broughton from Morgan, State Lecturer Beck from Butts, Executive Committeeman Stephens from Heard, Sergennt-at-Anns Copeland from Coweta, Doorkeeper Kaiuey from Schley, Assistant Doorkeeper Waddell from Mer iwether. 'I l,c first business taken up Wednesday tnovuing was the election of the judiciary committee. Hon. Martin V. Calvin, chairman, and the old committeemen, A. Q Moody and George T. Murrell, were re-elected. Two new- members were added, mating it a committee of live in s cad of three, as heretofore. The new members are: Dr McDonald, of Henry; Hon. W. If. Gonnat), of Talbot. lfesolu inns of the following import w ere passed: To appoint a committee to represent the Georgia Alliance in the Grand Na tional Alliance convention, which meets in Ocala, Flotilla, next December. Hephdgfng the Alliance to the resolu tion adopted at the lust annual conven tion relative to cotton bagging; To hold their cotton this fall until a satisfactory price is paid for it; To empowi r the directors of the Ex change to erect factories to make cotton bagging for the t ext crop and every crop thereafter. At the afternoon session the following committee wits appointed by tho State Alliance of Georgia as dcleuntes to the Grand Supreme Council of the National Alliance, which meets in Florida next December: L. F. Livingston,Newton ; W. L.Peek, Rockdale; J.M.lfushin, Thomas; W.S.Copeland, Coweta; W.A Broughton, Mi rgnn ; If.F. Wright. Elbert;A.Q. Moody, Thomas; Paul Trammell, Whitfield. President Livingston and Col. Peek are the two delegates appointed from the state at large. All equal number of alter nates were chosen; Hon. Felix Oorput and lion. M. V. Calvin being the alter nates fruit the state at large. Am liter committee, consisting of L. F. Livingston, .1 M. linshin, Harry Brown, was appointed to bear greetings to the Kansas State Alliance which meets soon. THE nniKCT TRADE FATTER. One of the most important mat'ers that came before the convention was the direct trade resolution, contemplating a convention of the governors of alt the cot ton states to be held at an early (lav. The ( riginal retoldtion was passed some time ago by the East Point, Ga., sub aili.itiic and is ns follows: I.(solved, That we respectfully request his (xcelleitey, .the governor of Georgia, to call a convention of governors of the cotton states, to meet in-Atlanta on the 10th day of September, proximo, to formulate a plan by which we can effect direct trade with Liverpool. Resolved, That each governor is re spectfully requested to appoint six dele gates from his state to accompany him and take part in said convention. Resolved, That tho State Alliance which is to meet in Atlanta ou tho 19th instant, is hereby respectfully asked to give this matter its careful consideration, and to appoint ten delegates, one from each congressional district, to said con tention. And be it further Resolved, That each and every sub-alli ance in Geo'gia is requested to endorse this resolution. w --“iesday morniDg, shortly after the ■ convention was called to order, lion. Felix Corput, of Floyd, gained the attention of the chair, and made a state ment about the charges that were being made against him in his home county, re flecting on his career as au allianceman, and as president of the Alliance exchange. He denied that lie was guilty of anything wrot g, and stated that if the convention had any doubts as to these reports, he it to satisfy itself before adjourn t . rd si at this pojpt, and before Mr. C'or pr< fend finished speaking, one of the dele gates from Cobb county arose. and taking from his pocket a proceeded to read au affidavit from J. H. Pedigo, of Pedigo & Lyon o , of Augusta. The affidavit set forth that Pedigo & Lyons iiad made a proposition to Mr. Corput. as president of IM exchange, to sell hemes and mules to AUDncemen at a profit of 7 per cent um, Mid allow lam (Corput) a brokerage of 1 par centum. Mr. Corput declined, and oNered to enter into att agreimjiit with Pedigo ft Lyons to sell stock to Al liancemen.and pay the exchange a brok' r ift of 6 per centum. 'lbis Pedigo & Lyona refused to do. The natural inference from the fore going affidavit was that the brokerage went to Corput personally instead of the state exchange; whereas tho brokerage weuf to the farmers and cut down uy just that the ci st of their stock. Mr. Corput, as soon as the reading of the affidavit was finished vigorously denied that there w-s anything in it reflecting on him or on his management of the ex change. After some discussion, the matter was referred to the committee on the good oi the order, of which State Lecturer Beck is chairman, and on which are Hon. R. W. Everett, of Polk, and Hon. T. J. Barrett, of Pike. The committee at once proceeded to the matter under investigation. A committee was appointed to investi gate the advisability of establishing with in the Alliance au insurance department for life and property. In their report, tho committee recommended that the convention elect a board of directors,con sisting of five members, to formulate and put into execution a plan of insurance for the Ailisnee of the state of Georgia. When the meeting adjourned Wednes day afterm on, though there still re mained a great d< til of business to be at tended to, it adjourned to 8 o'clock Thurs day morning, it was announced then that Governor Gordon would address the idliancemen and others in an open meet ing at 8 o'clock in the evening in the hull of representatives. At 8 o'slock the ball of representatives wag filled and the galleries were almost full. There was a full attendance of the Allianeemen. The governor’s speech was a brilliant one and commanded the closest attention of his vast audience. Among other things, be said : “As for myself, I am not sure that I shall be permitted to fight under the flag of financial reform, although for ever sixteen years I have been carrying its banners and defending every principle which you now advocate. If my devotion to these principles for sixteen years or more do not entitle me to your confidence, then nothing will. While I am iu the fullest sympathy with the great object in view, I wish to say in all candor that I cannot endorse the spe cific sub-treasury bill, because I do not believe even if it could be passed that it would bring the relief you seek. The en dorsement of specific bills is not what yon need. You need first to win the victory for reform by general agitation on all lines, and then when the general bat tle is won let all the combined wisdom ol all the friends of the cause be called inti requisition for perfecting the best meas ures for the purpose. ’ The one topic of discussion among the Alliance delegates about the hotels was the speech of Gov. Gordon . Particularly that sentence of it defining clearly his position on the sub-treasury plan. The last dy of tlic convintion was productive of two interesting sensations, and all day long these two were topics for talk among the Allianeemen. The first of these was the unanimous endorse ment by the convention of the St. Louis platform, carrying with it, of course, the unanimous endorsement of the sub-treas ury plan of the Alliance. The second was the teport of the committee having under consideration the investigation of ex-President of the Exchange Cor| lit. The committee having iu hand the inves tigation of the actions of Mr. Felix Cor put made a teport, vindicating Mr. Corput so far as the Pedigo affidavit w as concerned. The committee reported that the percentage demanded by Mr. Corput was for the benefit of the ex change and not for Mr. Corput personally. Mr. Corput was congratulated bv his friends at this result, but the report created a great deal of talk. Another matter in which considerable interest was felt by the convention was an attack, through Hon. Felix Corput, on lion. Martin Y. Calvin, of Richmond. The attack came from Mr. James Barrett, of Richmond. Mr. Barrett’s charge was that Mr. Calvin, though a prominent member of the order, was not eligible to membership in the alliance. The matter was referred to the judiciary committee. COTTON BAGGING AGAIN. A resolution was offered, and adopted with enthusiasm, in which cotton bagging was adopted ns the alliance covering. The enthusiasm and unanimity were nota ble, showiug that the alliance is us deter mined as ever in this fight. An invitation was extended the alliance, through Vice-President Smith, from the directors of the exposition, to attend the exposition this fall. President Living iton made a short speech, urging the ac ceptance of the invitation. It was ac cepted. Resolutions were passed, a copy of them to be presented to the Kansas Alli ance by the Georgia delegation appointed to bear fraternal greeting. OTHER MATTERS. The eligibility clause was made identi cal with that of the National Alliance, pro viding no one shall be admitted to mem bership to the order unless he be a farmer, larm laborer, mechanic, country school teacher, country preadtsr, country physi cian, country editor or the editor of a strictly agricultural journal. A board of grievances was established, to consist of five membtrs, to be ap pointed by the president. They are: AV. E.H. Searcy, chairman; E.P.Willis, ML Everett, AV. H. AVarner and G. F. Barry! Their duty is to adjudge minor matters thereby relieving the judiciary committee of many of its labors. Their decisions are submitted to t -e convention. THE SCOURGE IN TEXAS. A DOZEN CASES OF SMALL FOX DISCOVERED IN SAN ANTONIA—A BIG SCARE. There was great excitement and sur prise created at Sun Antonio, Saturday, "hen the fact became public that there were no less than a dozen cases of small pox in the c ity. The ou!break was vrr\ sudden, and not uutil Saturday was the matter reported to the health authorities. Steps were at once taken to prevent the spreading of the disease. TELEGRAPH AND CABLE. WHAT 18 GOING ON IN THE BUSY WORLD. A SI MM ART OF OUTSIDE AFFAIRS CON DENSED FROM NEWSY DISPATCHES FROM CNCLE SAM’S DOMAIN AND WHAT THE CABLE BRINGS. Cholera is spreading rapidly along the Mediterranean. Several cases of cholera arc reported in the ficinity of Berlin. The shipping strike has caused a gen eral paralysis of business in Australia. John Allen, the well known tobacco nist, died in Richmond, Va., Saturday. The. list of victims of the recent cy clone in Wilkesbarrc, Pa., now number 1. Frost has prevailed over Manitoba and the terrible stories, and 75 per cent of the crop has been injured. Representative Lewis F. Watson, of Pennsylvania, died very suddenly Mon day morning in Washington. Heart disease was the cause. The hay crop in Ireland is reported as ruined, and the condition of cereals and turf is bad. One death is reported from eating diseased potatoes. A cannon was prematurely discharged in a sham battle at Waverly, N. Y., Fri day, killing Will Bossum and fatally in juring James M. Costamore. The French steamer, Amerique, on Fri day,ran down and sank the English steam er, Red llroak, off the port of St. Nasaire. Three persons were drowned. Butler <fc Johnson, dealers iu paper, 44 Beekman street, New York, made an as signment Saturday to George P. Butler, with a preference of $140,000. Conservative railroad men estimate the prospective loss to the Old Colony Rail road Company, by the (Quincy accident, aside from the damage to rolling stock at SO OO,OOO. A cablegram of Monday, from London, says: Henry M . Stanley's agent has writ ten a letter in which he says that Mr. Stanley is very far from being restored to perfect health. The bakers at Newry, Germany, went out ou a strike Monday. Jt is feared there may be trouble, and the town is swarming with police. A boycott has been declared against “blacklegs.” Twenty thousand miners held a meeting at Chesterfield, England, Monday, and voted in favor of a working day of eight hours. The National Blast Furnacemen's Association lias also approved the eight hour system. A dispatch of Monday, from Rome, Italy, says: The military manoeuvres at Montcchiari with smokeless powder were a great success. Batteries of artillery fired half an hour without their presence being discovered. Advices front Madrid, Spain, says: Cholera is spreading in the city of Toledo. Thirteen cases and five deaths report and Monday. The Madrid health depart ment has sent officers to Toledo to take sanitary measures. A dispatch from Vienna, Austria, says: The duchy of Styria was visited by a hur ricane Friday, at Gratz, the capitol of the duchy, lluddiugs in which the na tional exhibition was being held, were completely wrecked. A dispatch of Monday, to the London Neirs, from Odessa, says that in spite of the protest, an anti-Jewish edict will be promulgated in October, with a supple ment justifying such repressing severity on the ground that it is intended to satisfy foreign opinion. A Buenos Ayres dispatch says : There wits a panic Saturday, in Cedul market, owing to reports that the Provincial Mort gage bank would be compelled to sus pend tlie payment of coupons, accompan ied by rumors of changjs iu the ministry. The gold premium is 157. A dispatch from Limerick, Ireland, says: Thirty thousand persons took part Sunday in the demonstration held here to protest against Bishop O’Dwyer’s attack upon John Dillon. Mr. Dillon, Mr. O’Brien and ten other Parnellitc members of parliament made speeches. The Ontario, Can., department of agri culture has issued a bulletin, in which it is estimated that the yield of wheat ex ceeds that of last year by 57,000,000 bush els; that of peas by 2,500,000, and that of hay and clover by nearly 600,000 tons. The fruit crop generally is a failure. Admiral Brown, of the flagship Charleston, which arrived Monday at Seattle, Wash., from Honolulu, expressed the belief, in an interview, that the next steamer from the Hawaiian Islands would bring news of a revolution and probably of the declaration of anew republic. The strike in Boerinnge district is spreading. On Friday 8,500 miners quit work, making a total thus far of 11,500 men on strike in the district. Meetings have been held at Jemmappes, Guesmes, Duaregnon and Frameries, at which the miners decided to continue the strike, l he police were r.ot allowed to lx: nreseut it the meetings. A Washington dispatch of Mouday ‘ays: Asa result of the investigation by local steamboat inspectors of the Sea Wing disaster on Lake Pep ; n, the license ns master and pilot of Captain Wetherin, who commanded the steamer, has been revoked, and he has been reported to the l nited States attorney for prosecu tion. Workmen engaged upon the two ends of St. I lair river tunnel. iretweeu Port Huron, Mich., and Sarnia, Out., shook hands with each other Monday morning tiuder St Clair river and made the great subterranean highway re echo with their cries. The tunnel is practicallv com pleted, and everyone connected with it is jubilant. The Queen's hotel at Sunbridge, Canada, together with its contents, was burned Mouday morning. The guests, of whom there was a large number, had great difficulty in escaping. Two men, Thomas Powers and Herbert Layton, the latter it is said, belonging to Ottawa, were burned to death, and tw o others were badly burned. A banquet was given to Dr. Peters at Kaisershof, Germany, Monday evening. Minister Hoffmann having toasted the emperor. Dr. Schweinfurth proposed the health of the guest of the evening, whom he referred to ns an intrepid man. -who had secured Germany’s hold in east Airi es, and who had so unconsciously re gained Heligoland. Exports of specie from the port of New York for week ended August 24, amounted to of which $2(5,018 was gold and $23(5.460 silver. Of the total exports $15,214 in gold and $57,- 475 in silver went to Europe and $lB,- 804 in gold and $178,975 hi sliver went to South America. Imports of specie for the week amounted to $578,352, of whiah $163,823 was in gold and $254,529 silver. A cablegram of Monday from Brussels, Belgium, says: The public sympathizes with the strikers and condemns the atti tude of the employers. The Courier de Bruxelles says that at a meeting of strik ers, delegates from the Cadry coal dis trict, it was decided to issue a manifesto calling upon the men to prepare fora gen eral strike after the suffrage congress in September next. A New York dispatch says: The re mains of Capt. John Erieson were on Sat urday placed onboard the cruiser Balti more, to be conveyed to his native couu try, Sweden, for final interment. The cr remonies attending.the transfer of the remains from the cemetery, in East Sec ond streets were very, imposing, Rear Admiral Brane was in charge of the naval part of the demonstration, and General Howard the military. All departments of the government were represented. All of the firemen and engineers em ployed by the Union Stock Yards Switch ing association at Chicago, went on a strike for higher wages Friday morning. The swiebing or transfer system is the largest in the country, as the association does all Ihe work for immense packing houses at the yards. Consequently all the work at the packing houses is at a stand still. The reasons for the strike are that the firemen receive 10J cents au hour sud engineers 28 cents. The fire men want 20 cents and the engineers 30 cents. The men also desire Sunday work regulated. NEWS OF THE SOUTH. BRIEF NOTES OF AN INTER ESTING NATURE. PITHS' ITEMS FROM ALL POINTS IN TIIE SOUTHERN STATES THAT WILL ENTER TAIN THE READER —ACCIDENTS, FIRES, FLOODS, ETC. Colored peop'e at Lula, Miss., are talkin'g of emigrating to Oklahoma. The Capital City bank, of Nashville, Tenn., is out just $41,030.70 through the ptock speculations of its teller, Frank M. Allen. Spartanburg, S. C., is to have a grand gala week the latter part of September, flaring the sa cof city property, which Jakes place on the 24th, 25th and 26th of September. An almost unprecedented good condi tion of the rice crop is reported in the upper Pedee section of South Carolina. The news from the rice fields lower down the coast is equally cheering. Everything points to an unprecedented rice crop in the State. Lookout Inn, on Lookout Mountain, changed hands Monday, R. L. Watkins and W. O. Peeples selling their interest to M. M. Henderson. The latter, with Hugh Whiteside and Watkins, owns the controlling interest in the inn. The entire property is valued at SIBO,OOO. An El Pnsso, Texas, special says that between thirty-five and forty houses were washed away Monday evening in Juarez, and sixty families rendered homeless by a cloudburst. A street traversed by one of the bursts wiis almost obliterated. Dwel lings on both sides were submerged and destroyed. R. P. Jones, a prominent builder and railroad contractor of Knoxville, Tenn., made an assignment on Saturday. His liabilities are placed at SIOO,OOO and as sets at SBO,OOO. These figures may be reduced or increased somewhat, as his affairs are in much confusion. Mr. Jones has a large amount of valuable real estate and Ms creditors will lose but little if anything. The Knoxville and Southern railroad, from Knoxville, Tenn,, to Atlanta, Ga., 220 miles, has been completed. A com mittee of citizens have passed over the road and inspected if. Three years ago Knoxville voted $275,000 to the com pany, to be issued for stock to that amount. A committee, who have passed over the road, will report unaimously in favor of issuing the bonds. A Nashville dispatch of Saturday says: It has just been learned that a party of \\ bite Caps a few nights ago visited the neighborhood of Carnesvillc, in Wilson county, N. C., and whipped four men and two w omen with hickory switches. Among the men who were .whipped arc John and L. It. Matthews and Obe Lnv hew r . They claim to know nothing about why they were whipped, A St. Louis dispatch of Friday says: The Farmers’ and Laborers’ Alliance of Missouri holds the key to the political situation in Missouri. In the state the consolidated alliance and wheel have 190,000 members, and 175,000 arc voters. It is organizing at the rate of five subun ions a day, and when the November elec tion arrives will control 250,000 votes, and hold the balance of power in the state. The prohibition party of Wske county, N. C\, met in convention Saturday, lit Raleigh,and nominated a full county tick et. The platform is particularly interest ing as it will be that of the party in North Carolina th s year. It favors the sub treasury bill, and the abolition of the liquor traffic. Its planks are in the main those of the Farmers’ Alliance, which, like the state democratic convention, it has incorporated. A Danville, Ya., dispatch says: In October last a warehouse at Rocky Mount, Franklin county, wrs fired by in cendiaries and burned to the ground,' to gether with several other buildings. Four negroes—George Early, Byrd Woods, William Brown and Nannie Woods—were arrested on suspicion, tried and convicted, and sentenced to be hanged. George Early and Byrd Woods were executed at Rocky Mount Friday, and the others will be executed on Sep tember 19th. SUBSCRIBE~NOW. FARMERS’ ALLIANCE NOTES, NEWS OF THE ORDER AND ITB MEMBERB. WHAT IS BEINO DONE IN THE VARIOUS SECTIONS FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF TUB GREAT ORGANIZATION. —LEGISLA- TION, NOTES, ETC. The Fanners’ Alliance will nominate a candidate for congress in the Kansas City, Mo., district. * * • The Fanners and Laborers’ Union and the Alliance of Arkansas have consoli dated the two organizations. * A * South Carolina has 1,052 sub-Alliances and a membership of 40,000. An in crease of 800 sub-Alliauces and 17,500 members since last report. * * * Kansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina lead ail other states in Alliance membership, Missouri is in the lead with 2,900 unions. * * * A good thing for Alliancemen to learn is to keep their own counsel, hear all that passes, learn all they can, and do but little talking. The one who absorbs all he can and gives out as little as possi ble, is the one who increases. Those who do most ta king generally have very little in reserve. * * * The Alliance is getting there lively this year. From all parts of the country comes the good news that prominent members of the organizations are being nominated for Congress. That is a move in the right direction. Fill all legisla tive halls with Alliancemen.— Arkansas Tocsin. * * * The chairman of the democratic execu tive committee of South Carolina says the outlook is all right. The Farmers’ Alli ance, about which there is so much talk, is all iu the democratic party, and it will organize the counties as they were never before organized. The alliance, of course, controls the conventions of all the counties. * * -k Co-operate mills, factories, stores, in fact all kinds of such enterprise's, must have at the head men of clear judgment, sound sense and methodical business habits. The marked successes have been won by just such men, and the mass of failures were due to the lack of sound judgment and clear-headed business views. Alliances will do well to note this fact clearly. * * + The State Alliance has again met and the delegates have returned to their homes. The meeting at Asheville was by far tlie largest meeting yet held in the State. Harmony prevailed throughout. We have many good men in our order, but it w’ould be hard to get a better set of officers than we now have in the State Alliance. Some of them have filled the same place ever since the first State meeting, and their private and official bearing has been such as to win not only the full confidence of our members, but the respect and confidence of everybody. Three cheers for the North Carolina Al liance!— (Raleigh N. C.) J’rogressivt Farmer. * * * It is a pi asurc to every Allianceman to know that the order in Georgia is stand ing squarely to the democratic party, and those men who have had so much to say about the div sion iu the party, will cer tainly now take a back seat. We fail to see where there has ever been reason for the fears so often expressed of designing men using the Alliance for their own pur poses; 11re only men who have endeavored to use the Alliance for unv purpose out side of its legitimate intentions and aims, was a few politicians outside of the order who have endeavored to use it through certain agencies inside our ranks.—South ern Alliance Farmer. * * * The Colered Farmers’ State Alliance met in Macon, Ga., Tuesday, and trans acted considerable business. Over fifty counties were represented, and all the delegates were enthusiastic over the pro ceedings of the special meeting. The object of the meeting was to decide where the State exei nge will be established. G. neral R. M. Hum phrey, of Austin, Texas, general superintendent of the Colored Farmers’ Alliance of America, made quite an in t cresting address to the convention. He is one among the white men of the sou h who are working for the upbuilding of the colored race. His advice to the body was good. The best colored men of Georgia are with him. State Superin tendent Edward Richardson, of the Georgia Alliance, made a telling speech to the convention. Ricdiardson is a young colored man that has a following of over sixty-five thousand colored men in Georgia. He appealed to the men to buy hou.es, educate their children and get property and work for peace and prosperity. COLORED ALLIANCEMEN. SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION REGARD ING THEIR PLATFORM. A dispatch of Saturday, from Raleigh, N. C., s-ys that the session of the Cole ortd State Alliance developed some in teresting information regarding the platform of this Alliance. It is entirely different from that of the white Alliance. The members are pledged to provide for their families, live economically and be good citizens, and also to withdraw from partisan politics. This last feature is a very important one, and is supposed to mean a fusion of the white and colored alliances in the near future. THEY NEED AID. A SPECIAL INSPECTOR REPORTS ON THE CONDITION OF OKLAHOMA SUFFERERS. A special land inspector of the interior department, who has been investigating the reported destitution in Oklahoma, telegraphs Secretary Noble that: “After many days of house to-house iusoectioa, I find fully one-third of the people need aid ; two-thirds of the farmers need seed wheat; many are now iu want of food; no work; nothing to sell; prospects gloomy; extreme south of the territory not quite so bad.” NO ARBITRATION. SITUATION OF THE GREAT STRIKE IN NEW YORK STATE. More literature was added to the strike history Friday afternoou and evening. State Commissioner Donovan, of the board of meditation and arbitration, sent a letter to Vice-President Webb and a copy to Mr. Powderly, saying: “It having come to the knowledge of the State board of meditation and arbi tration that another strike is seriously threatened upon the lines of your company, I am instructed by the board to again communicate w th you, and invite a joint conference be tween the officers of your company and representatives of your employes with the view of devising some means, either by arbitration or such other method ns may be mutually agreed upon, w hereby the threatened strike may he averted, and an abrupt interruption of travel and trans portation of freight prevented.’’ Mr. Powderly, in reply, said: “Our board is willing to comply with your re quest, and hold themselves in readiness to respond at a moment’s notice. We have from the beginning been willing and anxious to submit the matter to your board for adjustment.” MR. WEBB WILL NOT ARBITRATE. Iu reply Mr. Webb says: “The fur ther strike referred to by you will or will not tnke place, ns the efforts of the persons who have left our service may or may not meet with success. I believe that such efforts will fail. Tbt operating force of this company is full; the passen ger service of the company is regularly performed, and there is no obstruction to its freight service except lawless inter ference, and apprehension thereof seems to me inappropriate and unnecessary to have the conferenee as suggested by you.” Labor leaders say there is nothing to do save to strike, as the principle in volved is the right of workingmen to or ganize. TRADE REVIEW. DUN A COS. REPORT OF BUSINESS FOR WEEK ENDED AUGUST 23. The weekly review of trade of R. G. Dun & Cos., says: The signs of monetary disturbance w hich were noticed in previ ous reviews were not misleading. Money loaned at half a cent per day premium or about 190 per cent yearly, and most of the loans were at a quarter premium. Money for commercial loans is scarce and rates nominal. The treasury has an nounced that it will redeem $20,000,000 of the per cent bonds, and accelerate payment for silver bought. The obvious and only sufficient relief is fhe liquidation of money. Speculations in stocks, in wheat, corn, oats, cotton, leather, hides, coffee, wool, and especially in silver bul lion, have locked up enormous sums. In silver alone about ten millions have been locked up to wait for high prices. In grain several times ns much and iu other products many millions. In addi tion, the enormous imports intended to anticipate the pending tariff bill have virtually locked up for an indefinite time many millions paid f> r goods and in du ties on them. The volume of legitimate business throughout the country contin ues large, exceeding that of last year by 10 per cent, outside of New' York, and the desire to market products quickly as prices rise, causes a greater demand for currency from the country than usual. Reports from the various cities, with very few exceptions, indicate a larger trade than ever before is in progress with satisfactory collections and a bright out look. Crop reports are less discouraging though the yield must full below early anticipations as to grain. In general, the condition of legtimate business is encour aging, unless monetary pressure and labor controversies interfere. The threat of a great strike on all the Vanderbilt roads has helped to depress stocks and to dis turb shipments. Business failure of the veck number for the United States 1,- 172, Canada 20. Total 192, against 197 la.t week. APPEAL TO CONGRESS. KNIGHTS OF LABOR ASKING FOR FUNDS FOR THE STRIKERS. At n mcetiug of the central council of the Knights of Labor at Chicago, Sunday, a committee was appointed to solicit funds for the aid of the New York Cen tral strikers, and the following resolutions were adopted unanimously: Resolved, That we do hereby demand that the congress of the United States shall at once authorize and instruct the secretary of war to seize said Vanderbilt ■ system of railroads and operate the same at the cost of said service for the benefit and pleasure of the public. Resolved further, That said railroad shall be turned over to the department of transportation just as soon as the senate bill, number 4106, or some similar measure, can be enacted by congress, foi the reason that it is a mon strous absurdity that any private person or corporation should presume to throttlo the transportation of persons, thought or things within the limits of this republic at tlieir own sweet pleasure. Resolved, That we do hereby ask all liodies of organized labor in tlm United States to substitute names for ours in this declaration, and have said declaration published iu their local papers, as well as forward marked copies of said papers to their senators and representatives iu con gress, with a red-hot letter of instruc tions to obey their wants and wishes or resign forthwith. Resolved, That th's declaration be published in all the city papers, so that it will meet the attention of the public. A FREE FIGHT INDULGED IN BY SOLDIERS, CITIZENS AND POLICE. Information from Sabinas. Mexico, says that an affray occurred there Mon day morning. The military escort ac companying the pay car of the Mexican International railways, all got on a drunken spree at Sabinas leaving the pay car unguarded. The soldiers becatre noisy and their arrest was. attempted by the police, when a fight ensued, and a citizen named Danancio Darrila was killed by one of the soldiers. The sol diers were all finailv arrested and jailed.